Mass Effect/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

*** Just to make this one a tiny bit worse: It's implied that Shepard may have met both of her daughters on the Citadel. One was the Presidium receptionist; the other worked for the asari Consort.

* Legion replaying the first memories of the Geth Collective to Shepard:

** It's absolutely '''heartbreaking'' if you stop Legion {{spoiler|from uploading the Reaper data into the rest of the Geth collective. Tali stabs him, and if you don't take the Renegade interrupt, Legion asks before dying, "Does this unit have...." Tali tearfully replies, "Yes, you do."}}

* Jack's romance as well. This troper teared up with manly tears.

** Ditto. On the plus side we have Shepard's paragon ending, but listening to the barely\not at all hidden disgust in his\her voice [[Crownimg Moment Of Heartwarming|made me fall so hard for Shepard.]]

** I'm the type of player who takes the evil path in games, for the [[For the Evulz|sheer pleasure of acting like a complete bastard.]] But, at the end of the Overlord mission, I was filled with an [[Unstoppable Rage|unbridled fury]] and sadness, plain and simple. I actually said {{spoiler|"Give me the option to shoot that bastard...NOW!"}}

** If you decide to {{spoiler|take David from the facility, you're treated to a extended scene you wouldn't see otherwise. You focus in on his face, eyes pried open by clamps, tears flowing, the camera moving closer and closer as the mission draws to a close as he repeats the same equation over and over again, mimicking his elder brother's words as he spoke about what he had done to him...}}

*** Hell, even a Renegade Shepard {{spoiler|is disgusted by what happened, despite letting Archer keep him, if only to prevent a war. Shows that [[Even Evil Has Standards]].}}

{{quote| '''David:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tWhNMqCYhQ Square root of 912.04 is 30.2. It all seemed harmless...Square root of 912.04 is 30.2. It all seemed harmless...Square root of 912.04 is 30.2...it all seemed harmless...]}}

** Bioware programmed a moving sequence sure, but Chris Lennertz's score makes it utterly devastating.

** I may be the only one to think this but I found Archer to be more upsetting. He cares about his brother and knows what he did was wrong but at the point Shepard shows up its too late to stop. "What I have done to David is unethical. If he dies it is unforgivable."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSCFQcR08E This] live-action ad for [[ME 3]] features Shepard kicking all sorts of ass, but before then, you see people in a panic over the Reaper invasion, including a store owner cowering under the counter as looters raid the place; a family watching the events unfold on TV, huddled close together; and a church congregation crying for salvation before the roof starts to collapse on them.

* This tweet from Emily Wong's Twitter feed covering the invasion of Los Angeles:

** Hell, all of Emily Wong's tweets. Poor girl is live blogging the REAPER APOCALYPSE. Several times its brought me to near tears.

** [[It Got Worse]]... she's about to go kamikaze on a Reaper!